Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).

He is on the advisory board for the Project on Justice in Times of Transition and is on the International Council of Advisors for the International Campaign for Tibet.

Affiliations
Havel also addressed a 2002 European meeting of the Trilateral Commission.
 * Member, International Committee for Democracy in Cuba
 * Patron, New Atlantic Initiative
 * Honorary Patron, Global Leadership Foundation
 * International Advisory Board, Journal of Democracy
 * International Advisory Board, Orange Circle
 * Global Council on Planetary Ethics and Values, World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality
 * Recipient of the Premio Internazionale Vittorino Colombo award from Fondazione Vittorino Colombo in 2005
 * Recipient of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: Four Freedoms Award in 1990
 * Recipient of the International Rescue Committee: Freedom Award in 2003
 * Recipient of the NED Democracy Award in 1991
 * Recipient of the 2007 NED Democracy Service Medal
 * A Member of a group that Edward S. Herman refers to as The New Humanitarians
 * Member, Committee of 100 for Tibet
 * Honorary Member, Club of Budapest: Members
 * Member, Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
 * Co-Chairman, The Comitee on the Present Danger in 2008
 * Winner of the 1989 Olof Palme Prize
 * International Board of Governors, Peres Center for Peace
 * 2004 winner of the Centre of Peace and Multiethnic Cooperation peace award

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